Entertainment

Widgetbox Blidgets

Widgetbox, the widget platform, will announce tomorrow the launch of "blidgets". Blidgets, in case you can't already guess, is short for "blog widgets" - a quick way to turn your blog's RSS feed into a widget. The blidgets also include Widgetbox's new Widgetbox Syndication Platform, allowing you to track how many times it's being used. Your readers can create a blidget by hitting a "Get Widget" button under a sample widget on your blog.

But blidgets don't just convert RSS to widgets: they also allow you to add photos, post links, images and audio clips. What's more, you can customize the look of the widget to better suit your blog. I assume these will be Flash based and work on blogs, MySpace, hi5 and Friendster.

There's so much overlap and so many partnerships between the various widget providers that the space is becoming bamboozling. The new blidgets would seem to rival Musestorm, the RSS-to-widget service with a tracking service, as well as the SpringWidgets-Feedburner partnership. It's all good for bloggers of course...when I was looking for an RSS to Flash service six months ago, there were almost no usable offerings - now there's plenty of choice.

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